THE EDUCATION SYSTEM
SCOPE FOR CHANGES REPORT CRITICISED , "To say that tho New Zealand education system is practically perfect is rather ridiculous," said l\lr. 0. R. N. Mackie, at the annual meeting of the Canterbury School Committers' Association. Mr, Mackie was commenting on tho report made by tho Director of Education, Mr. N. T. Lambourne, after his trip abroad to study educational methods. In the last year, said Mr. Mackie, when the Government had decided to send the director abroad, it had been hoped that lie would return with a report on tho working of school associations which would be useful to the school committees. But Mr. Lambourne had begun his report with the statement that tho education system in New Zealand included all modern educational developments. "This is rather a sweeping statement," Mr. Mackie continued. "We have quite a number of names attached to parts of our system, but 1 do not think that they function fully. I do not deprecate our education system, and 1 have never done so. But there arc ways in which wo should follow the example of countries which have developed their systems along bettor and broader lines."
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22421, 18 May 1936, Page 10
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